Overview - AudioThing · For a limited period of time, Kontakt Player will run a limited demo...

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The Organetta is a small portable reed organ made in the late 50s by the German company Hohner*. The sound is generated by an electric fan that blows air into a set of brass reeds hence the sound is reminiscent of something in between a melodica and an accordeon. We sampled this little green friend with two mics: a large diaphragm condenser mic and a piezo attached to the chassis. The fan noise has been removed from the samples but you can choose to add it to the mix or play it alone by pressing the green keys. To add more realism we captured 6 round robin of the key down and up noises. Specifications 6 Kontakt Instruments (.nki) 144 Samples (44.1kHz / 24Bit) Two Mics (condenser and piezo) 17 sec long notes samples 30+ sec long fan samples Two intensity layers 618 MB installed / 266 MB download Formats: Kontakt and WAV Installation Once the AudioThing_Organetta.rar file is downloaded, unzip it using WinRar or UnRarX or a similar type of software. It is recommended that you preserve the internal folder structure, but you can also place the instruments and samples into separate folders. Kontakt will ask for the new path the first time you run the instrument. Kontakt 4 or higher is required to run the instrument. For a limited period of time, Kontakt Player will run a limited demo version of this library. 1

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The Organetta is a small portable reed organ made in the late 50s by the German company Hohner*. The sound is generated by an electric fan that blows air into a set of brass reeds hence the sound is reminiscent of something in between a melodica and an accordeon. We sampled this little green friend with two mics: a large diaphragm condenser mic and a piezo attached to the chassis. The fan noise has been removed from the samples but you can choose to add it to the mix or play it alone by pressing the green keys. To add more realism we captured 6 round robin of the key down and up noises.

Specifications• 6 Kontakt Instruments (.nki)• 144 Samples (44.1kHz / 24Bit)• Two Mics (condenser and piezo)• 17 sec long notes samples• 30+ sec long fan samples• Two intensity layers• 618 MB installed / 266 MB download• Formats: Kontakt and WAV

InstallationOnce the AudioThing_Organetta.rar file is downloaded, unzip it using WinRar or UnRarX or a similar type of software. It is recommended that you preserve the internal folder structure, but you can also place the instruments and samples into separate folders. Kontakt will ask for the new path the first time you run the instrument. Kontakt 4 or higher is required to run the instrument. For a limited period of time, Kontakt Player will run a limited demo version of this library.

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OverviewMix Knob – Controls the mix between the two sources: Mic and Piezo

Intensity – Controls the emulation of amount of air blown into the reeds

Fan Noise – Controls the volume of the noise produced by the fan

Key Noise – Controls the volume of the noises produced by the keys down and up

Attack, Decay, Release – Control the volume envelope. When the Decay is all the way up the sustain will be at maximum level.

Cutoff, Resonance – Control the Low Pass filter

CreditsSamples, Script and Programming by Carlo CastellanoGUI Design by Luis BurdalloProduced by AudioThing

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LicenseThe license of this product is granted only to a single user for how many computers he/she has. All sounds and samples in this product are licensed, but not sold, to you by AudioThing for commercial and non-commercial use in music, sound-effect, audio/video post-production, performance, broadcast or similar content creation and production.This license expressly forbids any unauthorized use of the content of this library or any AudioThing library by another sample instrument or loop, samples or SFX library of any kind, without our express written consent.

Thank YouThank you for buying Organetta! We hope you will have as much fun using this product as we had making it.

For help or any question, feel free to mail us: [email protected]

* All other trademarks and copyrights are the property of their respective owners.

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